[Resend RFC PATCH 2/5] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat For scalability and performance reasons, we want the broadcast timer interrupts to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers

[RFC PATCH 2/5] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat For scalability and performance reasons, we want the broadcast timer interrupts to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers

[RFC PATCH 2/5] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com For scalability and performance reasons, we want the broadcast timer interrupts to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function

[Resend RFC PATCH 2/5] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com For scalability and performance reasons, we want the broadcast timer interrupts to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function